Leviticus · 30 verses
Leviticus 6
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A clay pot that has boiled the sin offering must be broken, while a bronze one is scoured and rinsed; even a garment spattered with blood must be washed in a holy place. Sacred cooking, in this chapter, comes with an unusually exact clean-up operation.
Restitution, then the ramvv. 1–7
The LORD tells Moses of the guilty keeper of deposits, the deceiver, the extortioner, and the finder of lost property who lies about it. Once guilt is acknowledged, the stolen thing, entrusted thing, or lost thing must be returned in full, with a fifth added, and a ram brought to the priest. The priest makes atonement, and the matter ends in forgiveness.
The fire keeps its appointmentvv. 8–23
The burnt offering remains on the altar through the night, and the priest tends the fire in linen. In the morning come fresh wood, the offering, and the fat portions of the peace offerings; the ashes are removed, the priest changes clothes, and they are carried outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place. The grain offering is divided between altar and priests, except for the offering prepared by a priest on the day he is anointed, which is burned completely. The fire, meanwhile, is emphatically not to be extinguished.
The sin offering, and its troublesome potvv. 24–30
The sin offering is slaughtered where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and the priest who offers it normally eats it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. Then the chapter turns to the implements: blood on a garment means washing in a holy place; a clay pot must be broken, while a bronze pot is scoured and rinsed. Finally comes the exception with a sharp edge: if the blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, the offering is not eaten at all, but burned.
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Lev 6:2“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
Lev 6:3or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit—
Lev 6:4once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,
Lev 6:5or anything else about which he has sworn falsely. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value, and pay it to the owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.
Lev 6:6Then he must bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock.
Lev 6:7In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.”
Lev 6:9“Command Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth of the altar all night, until morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.
Lev 6:10And the priest shall put on his linen robe and linen undergarments, and he shall remove from the altar the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed and place them beside it.
Lev 6:11Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.
Lev 6:12The fire on the altar shall be kept burning; it must not be extinguished. Every morning the priest is to add wood to the fire, arrange the burnt offering on it, and burn the fat portions of the peace offerings on it.
Lev 6:13The fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it must not be extinguished.
Lev 6:14Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before the LORD in front of the altar.
Lev 6:15The priest is to remove a handful of fine flour and olive oil, together with all the frankincense from the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Lev 6:16Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 6:17It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Lev 6:18Any male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. This is a permanent portion from the food offerings to the LORD for the generations to come. Anything that touches them will become holy.”
Lev 6:20“This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.
Lev 6:21It shall be prepared with oil on a griddle; you are to bring it well-kneaded and present it as a grain offering broken in pieces, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Lev 6:22The priest, who is one of Aaron’s sons and will be anointed to take his place, is to prepare it. As a permanent portion for the LORD, it must be burned completely.
Lev 6:23Every grain offering for a priest shall be burned completely; it is not to be eaten.”
Lev 6:25“Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is most holy.
Lev 6:26The priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 6:27Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in a holy place.
Lev 6:28The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.
Lev 6:29Any male among the priests may eat it; it is most holy.
Lev 6:30But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it must be burned.’’
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- 12Leviticus 9:24Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.
- 6Leviticus 5:15“If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering.
- 7Leviticus 4:26He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the peace offerings; thus the priest will make atonement for that man’s sin, and he will be forgiven.
- 12Exodus 29:38–42This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
- 15Leviticus 2:9The priest is to remove the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- 15Leviticus 2:2and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the frankincense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- 25Leviticus 4:24He is to lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD. It is a sin offering.
- 28Leviticus 11:33If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.
- 16Ezekiel 44:29They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.
- 16Leviticus 2:3The remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD.
- 21Leviticus 2:5If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.
- 25Leviticus 1:11He shall slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests are to splatter its blood against the altar on all sides.
- 26Leviticus 10:17–18“Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them before the LORD.
- 28Leviticus 15:12Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.
- 2Colossians 3:9Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
- 3Exodus 23:4If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
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